Technical information across Santa Barbara

How to get to Santa Barbara from Moscow

From our capital to Santa Barbara, it is most convenient to fly one of the Aeroflot flights with a change in Los Angeles. You will have to spend about eighteen hours on the road, so stock up on books and your favorite audio recordings.

There are other options - flights with two transfers (usually they are cheaper). These are offered by British Airways, Lufthansa, and others. Transfers are carried out in European cities (do not forget to ask about the need for a transit visa), or in New York or the same Los Angeles. Travel time is more than twenty hours, depending on the duration of the transfer.

In addition, you can drive from Los Angeles and other nearby cities to Santa Barbara by rented car, and continue your journey on it, because this is the best option for moving around the country.

Distances from Santa Barbara to other cities and national parks

• Las Vegas - 361 miles / 578 km (5.5 hours)
• Los Angeles - 101 miles / 161 km (2 hours 15 minutes) - along the coast (Pacific Coast Highway)
• Monterey - 231 miles / 370 km (5 hours) - along the coast
• Santa Cruz - 274 miles / 439 km (5.5 hours) - along the coast
• San Francisco - 356 miles / 570 km (7.5 hours) - along the coast (via Monterey, Santa Cruz)
• Yosemite National Park - 326 miles / 522 km (6 hours) - to Yosemite Valley (via San Luis Obispo and Fresno)
• Sequoia National Park - 256 miles / 410 km (5 hours)

* the estimated travel time is indicated, which may differ from the actual (most likely upwards)

Accommodation in Santa Barbara

I already mentioned Santa Barbara in an article about road number 1stretching along Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Canada. There I said that we spent the night in the car, so we could not appreciate the charms of local hotels. In general, we rarely spent the night in hotels while traveling around the States, preferring for the most part campsites.

However, in Santa Barbara, you can count about a hundred hotels, inns, motels, hostels and other nice places to stay overnight. Finding a hotel room is as easy as shelling pears, for this you can use the form search engine for hotels Hotellook, which collects in one place information on a huge variety of hotels, hostels and motels from sites such as Booking, Agoda, and allows you to compare prices and choose the best options:

In Santa Barbara, there are both little-known hotels and representatives of world-famous chains: Best Western, Holiday Inn, Hyatt, etc.

Fans of savings and interesting options can use the Airbnb website - a resource that we actively used both in the States and in Mexico, because we often found the best value for money there. This site offers many housing options from private owners, and with guarantees.

Perhaps you will also choose something for yourself:

By clicking on the last link, you will be taken to a section where all the accommodation options offered on Airbnb in the States will be collected. There you can enter the name of the city you are interested in in the upper left corner, and you will get a selection of housing specifically for it, plus there is an opportunity to "play" with other parameters in order to choose the options that are most suitable for personal requests (the picture is enlarged):

For details on the operation of the Airbnb service and the procedure for making a reservation, as well as a $20 bonus on the first booking (for unregistered users), look in my instructions article. There are also reviews and links to specific rooms and apartments that Andryusiks and I rented.

Quite economical travelers can use the services of the couchsurfing.org website. We have never tried it so far.

Santa Barbara is probably one of the most famous cities in the world. west coast USA among the inhabitants of Russia. This is due to the series of the same name, which was broadcast on central television for almost 10 years in the 90s of the last century. Today I will show you what this small town really is.

I ended up in Santa Barbara in February of this year, while traveling through the western states of America with the support of a service for independent travel Letim.me. We were heading from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Santa Barbara was on our route.
Some 150 km. on a great road from LA and we are there.

1. If you look at the city from a bird's eye view, then this is an ordinary coastal American city with flat, wide streets. Nothing special:

2. But as soon as you take a short walk around the city, expensive mansions and well-groomed streets immediately catch your eye:

Close proximity to Los Angeles, lack of fuss and an incredibly mild climate have made Santa Barbara the most attractive city for buying real estate. The weather here is comfortable all year round with minimal rainfall. The average annual temperature in Santa Barbara is about +15. It's warmer than chilly San Francisco and much nicer than hot Los Angeles during the summer months. Often this place is called the American Riviera by analogy with the Cote d'Azur.
The population of Santa Barbara is only about 100 thousand people. Provincial town at first glance.

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4. The railway station is located almost in the center of the city. Small building built in 1905:

4. We are lucky. While we were walking in the area, the station arrived passenger train Los Angeles - San Francisco:

5. The composition is two-story and it is clear that it is not entirely new. However, there were a lot of passengers at the station. Apparently this railway direction is popular:

6. In general, in the US, trains are not popular. An excellent road network, cheap gasoline and affordable flights make trains less attractive for traveling around the country:

7. From the station we go towards the coast:

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9. Tall palm trees are the first sign that we are near the ocean:

10. Dolphins at the entrance of the city pier:

11. Santa Barbara Beach Line:

12. City pier. It has various shops and cafes, just like in Santa Monica or San Francisco. The flags caught my attention. See the Russian tricolor?

13. This is the flag of the Russian-American company:

The Russian-American Company is a semi-state colonial trading company founded by Grigory Shelikhov and Nikolai Rezanov and approved by Emperor Paul I on July 8, 1799.
The trading company was created to colonize the coast of America (!). After the sale of Alaska, it formally existed until 1881 and paid dividends until 1888.

14. Pacific Coast:

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17. Well, we will go to another important place in Santa Barbara. Let's see the city along the way:

18. Typical American Streets:

19. School bus:

20. On the way, I barely have time to catch the mansions with the camera:

21. Where are the fences? We would have closed it all with a 3-meter fence out of sight. Maybe this is CC or Mason's house?)

22 So we arrived at one of the main attractions of the city. Mission of Saint Barbara:

At the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the Spaniards conducted active missionary activities in California (of course, in order to strengthen their influence in this territory). Over several decades, they built 21 missions at a distance of about 48 kilometers from each other. The Santa Barbara Mission was founded tenth in 1786. It is now the most visited active of all California missions. The city of Santa Barbara arose precisely around this mission.

23. The mission is located in the upper part of the city:

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25. It was here that the screensaver for the series of the same name was filmed. Remember those arches?

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28. In conclusion, let's take another look at the city from a bird's eye view of the drone:

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That's all!

The post was prepared jointly with the service for independent travel

The selection of cheap flights from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles

Here you can find and buy the cheapest air tickets Santa Barbara - Los Angeles by price from 6 387 rub. And Santa Barbara - Los Angeles - Santa Barbara by price from 10 922 rub..

Santa Barbara - Los Angeles (USA) - Santa Barbara flight ticket price from 10 922 rub.(roundtrip).

The average price of a flight from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles (USA) - Santa Barbara RUB 12,582(roundtrip).

The distance between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles is 139 km.

The time difference between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles is 0 hours.

Minimum flight time Santa Barbara - Los Angeles: 38m.

The cost of a one-way ticket starts from 6,387 rubles, and the cost of a round-trip ticket will be from 10,922 rubles.

You can get from the airport to the city either by private car or taxi, or by using public transport– runs between the city and airports a large number of bus routes. Flights from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles are operated by several airlines: United Airlines, Nolinor Aviation.

It is better to buy tickets for a US flight to the US in advance a couple of months in order to be able to choose the dates that are best for you, as well as flight conditions, taking into account financial capabilities. The price of tickets depends on the season, the airline, the number of days before departure, the number of transfers. Depending on the above conditions, the average price of a one-way ticket is 8,750 rubles, and the average price of a round-trip ticket will be 12,582 rubles.

With the help of our site you can get directions Los Angeles - Santa Barbara both by car and by public transport (bus, train). All routes are formed on the basis of Yandex and Google service maps. We are glad that our service was useful to you and you were able to find out how to drive from Los Angeles (United States of America) to Santa Barbara (United States of America).

Distance between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Driving by road, the distance between Los Angeles, California and Santa Barbara, California is 154 km.

• Travel time

  1 hour, 49 minutes

  
  

  excluding traffic jams and time for rest and meals

• Fuel consumption

  at a consumption of 10 liters per 100 kilometers

• Travel costs

  at the cost of fuel 35 rubles per liter

• straight-line distance
  

  distance between the centers of cities, towns, villages

• Road distance

  according to the Yandex Maps service for 2015

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	Los Angeles,	Less than 1 minute	0 km
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	Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA	2 minutes	1.4 km
↓	17 minutes - 24.7 km
	Westlake Village Area,	20 minutes	26.1 km
↓	25 minutes – 38.4 km
	Hollywood Beach, Ventura, California, USA	46 minutes	64.6 km
↓	25 minutes – 37.9 km
	ventura, California, USA	1 hour, 11 minutes	102.4 km
↓	38 minutes - 51.5 km
	Santa Barbara, California, USA	1 hour, 49 minutes	154 km

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